William Taylor Barry (5 February 1784 – 30 August 1835) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Kentucky's 5th district from 8 August 1810 to 3 March 1811 (succeeding Benjamin Howard and preceding Henry Clay), a US Senator from 2 February 1815 to 1 May 1816 (succeeding George Walker and preceding Martin D. Hardin), and US Postmaster General from 9 March 1829 to 10 April 1835 (succeeding John McLean and preceding Amos Kendall).
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William Taylor Barry was born in Lunenburg, Virginia in 1784, and his family moved to Fayette County, Kentucky in 1796. He became a lawyer in Lexington, and he became a member of the State House of Representatives in 1807. Barry served in the US House of Representatives from 1810 to 1811, and he served in the War of 1812 before returning to the US Senate from 1815 to 1816 and then serving in the State Senate from 1817 to 1821, as Lieutenant Governor from 1820 to 1824, as Secretary of State from 1824 to 1825, and as a gubernatorial candidate in 1828. He died in 1835.